Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Sunday season 5 of the best show on tv starts. Discuss anything you want and yes spoilers will be allowed.
Originally Posted By cstephens OK, then I'm staying out of this thread, and I'll create a thread where no spoilers are allowed. Generally, that's how it works. We do links to spoilers, but no actual spoilers on the thread. /cs
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Fine then just create the non-spoiler thread. I only created this thread because maybe someone on these boards watches the show and lives in either the eastern or midwestern time zones. It's a pain in the you know what having to wait to discuss Survivor or 24 while waiting for everyone. But I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet on this one.
Originally Posted By disney pete i wont be able to read this thread coz being in the uk we will be miles behind as we where last time as was 4400 and other great series.
Originally Posted By cstephens DDMAN26 wrote: > I only created this thread because maybe someone on these boards watches the show and lives in either the eastern or midwestern time zones. It's a pain in the you know what having to wait to discuss Survivor or 24 while waiting for everyone. But I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet on this one. I know that's the rule on the Survivor thread, but I don't agree with that. Once the show has been broadcast, it's no longer a spoiler. If you don't live in the Eastern time zone, you just have to know not to go into that thread until you've seen the show. As long as you don't start a separate thread with information in the title (I've seen on some boards where someone will start a totally separate thread with "<insert name here> won!" instead of just making a post in the appropriate thread (whether it be Survivor, Amazing Race, American Idol, whatever). For Survivor, I know not to read anything on the Survivor thread after 5pm my time, and then I don't read it until I've actually seen the show. If you're ok with being able to post about a show as soon as it's over (no matter what the time zone), then let's just keep this one thread. If you want to be able to post spoilers about things that haven't happened yet (unless it's something in the preview for the following week's show), then I'll go ahead and start the non-spoiler thread. /cs
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 All right we'll just keep this as the non-spoiler thread instead. It doesn't really matter.
Originally Posted By utahjosh Ahhhh!!! ********Spoilers*************88 ************* What an opening. I can't believe we had 2 main characters die so early in the episode - however it was genius in using them to set up this season, and getting Jack back.
Originally Posted By cstephens When Palmer was shot, I was very surprised, just because it totally came out of nowhere. I hadn't read anywhere that he was going to be in this show, so I didn't expect to see him at all. I was sad when he was killed though because I really liked his character. (I do hope that they don't allow Allstate to buy commercial time on the show this year so that dead David Palmer isn't hawking insurance.) But when they killed Michelle, it almost brought me to tears. I really like her as a character and an actress, and I'd noticed that while Tony was going to be on the show, she wasn't, so I was waiting to see how they'd explain that. I figured they'd be divorced again or something. It never occurred to me that they'd kill her off. But, Reiko (Michelle) has been saying that they've been threatening to kill her off for a couple years now, and they've never actually done it. And pretty much everyone in the cast except for Kiefer is expendable. And at first, I didn't figure out what happened. I thought someone had shot at the house or driven a car through the house to get to Tony. And then I realized that it must have been a car bomb, and then OMG, no, not Michelle. I loved the scene with Edgar telling Chloe about Tony and Michelle just as Chloe is about to put her key in the car. I'm loving Jean Smart in the show. I wasn't sure how her character was going to be, but she's got one meaty role. I still hate Logan though. I really liked Mike's reaction to hearing about Palmer's death. I'm liking Derrick (sp?), especially since it's looking like he's not going to be an annoying kid. I love the looks he's had as he's seeing Jack do various things, kinda like Audrey last year, but with pretty much just wonder as opposed to horror. And speaking of which, I was surprised they were bringing Audrey back, but I'm glad they did. I do like her, and it looks like she'll be instrumental in how things go. She knows Jack. Even though she found out a lot of things about him last year that she didn't know or like, she knows about his character. She knows what he would do, and she knows he wouldn't do this. And she especially knows that Chloe wouldn't back him unless Chloe also knew he didn't do it. So I was a bit surprised that a baggage handler supervisor's job would be so important enough that he'd have a suicide pill at his disposal... I love this show, but it also makes me crazy. Two hours wasn't enough. The fact that I have to wait another 16 hours for another two hours still won't be enough. If I had a time machine, I'd jump forward to when the DVD for this season was available and then watch all of it at once. I'm wondering if they're going to tie in any more of the stuff that happened in the 10 minute special scene on the season 4 DVD. As it is, we know that whoever is behind this has known about Jack being alive for about 6 months. /cs
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I had a feeling that Palmer was going to killed. I know that he has his own show coming up. But I didn't expect Michelle that completely threw me for a loop. But what an incredible two hours, tonight can't come soon enough.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden <<So I was a bit surprised that a baggage handler supervisor's job would be so important enough that he'd have a suicide pill at his disposal...>> LOL. I thought that too. But a great two-hour opener. Can't wait for tonight.
Originally Posted By danyoung >And pretty much everyone in the cast except for Kiefer is expendable.< Don't be so sure. I have no inside info, other than what I've read in interviews & such. But Keifer stated that there may indeed come a time when the show can go on with another lead actor having a really sucky day, which means that NO ONE is safe! And on the spoiler issue, I'm with those who say that once broadcast, it's a free for all. I won't read this thread throughout the season until I've seen that week's show. That's just good common sense.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Another Wow! Man, I love this show. Just kind of sat there with my mouth open through most of it. I really liked Michelle too. I liked Jack's response to Palmer's death also. I love how Chloe's character has evolved. And I've very glad Tony is still in the picture.
Originally Posted By Shooba Ah, I've missed this show. Still the most gripping drama on TV, by far. Was pleasantly surprised to see Palmer back, and genuinely surprised by his death. The Jean Smart character is the type of way-too-convenient plot point that can make this show a tad aggravating sometimes. She has important info, but conveniently also has a mental disorder that prevents anyone from believing her? Please! The editing of the Palmer phone call seemed a tad unrealistic? Interesting premise thus far, and I'm dying to know the answers to the unanswered questions.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Loved it. DH said early in the day that he thought "The first 10 minutes" that had been advertised so much was going to be Palmer dying. Don't know why he thought that and was thrilled with himself for guessing (we play the guess what is going to happen game throughout the show). We both liked the Palmer character and are sorry to see him go. Did anyone else think the kid had too much lipstick on? Maybe it was just me. We can't decide if the President or his right hand man are both sleazy or just one of them is going to be corrupt. Any thought?
Originally Posted By danyoung >The editing of the Palmer phone call seemed a tad unrealistic?< I had that thought, too. Unless the presidential aide was an audio whiz, and had lots of other recordings of Palmer with exactly the same audio acoustics, it would pretty tough for him to do that in that short a time. It's one of those plot points that us techno-geeks have just gotten used to overlooking, kinda like the Star Wars' Death Star World Blowing Up Death Ray being triggered by a Grass Valley video switcher's 2nd mix-effects bus lever. Sometimes you just gotta let it go . . .
Originally Posted By peeaanuut ok i have still never watched this show. So I understand that each show is part of the same day, but is each season the next day? Or has there been a break of sorts and the next season is another day weeks or months after the last season?
